Emily Cataneo is an award-winning journalist and fiction writer. Her work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and journals including the New York Times, NPR, The Guardian, Atlas Obscura, the Baffler, Indiana Review, Smokelong Quarterly, and Lightspeed Magazine. She has reported on stories in Iceland, Mexico, Germany, South Korea, and across the United States, and has published more than 20 short stories. Emily holds an MFA from North Carolina State University and is a 2016 graduate of the Clarion Writers Workshop. She has been a teacher of creative writing since 2017.